Palo a Palo is a collaboration between Amaia Gabantxo and Andrea Peterson. It combines words and movement, song and dance inspired in Butoh and Flamenco. It is an ongoing project that involves devising and performing a series of palos (flamenco beats) that together will form a full-length show. The different palos represent the wide array of human emotion and expression: from loneliness to despair to joy, each emotion has its own rhythm in flamenco. In Palo a Palo, we seek to take this flamenco concept as far as possible, in this instance aided by the medium of Butoh we seek to communicate the effects of conflict and war on humanity. And further, to display humanitys resilience and potential for unity. Amaia Gabantxo is a writer and literary translator, a flamenco singer and university professor of Basque language and literature. Following the dictate of a pilgrim soul, she has lived many lives in many countries, always singing her way through them. Andrea Peterson has been performing in the U.S. and overseas for the last 7 years. She has been training with the Chicago Butoh community and under the guidance of artistic director Wendy Clinard of Clinard Dance Theatre in Pilsen for the last 3 years.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:17:00 +0000
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